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Food security – Status and determinants – During the COVID-19 lockdown: Evidence from primary survey in eastern India
Lockdowns induced by COVID-19 have threatened food security in most developing countries.
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Rural Bangladeshi consumers’ willingness to pay for rice with improved nutrition via zinc biofortified rice and decreased milling practices
Zinc deficiency is a severe public health issue in Bangladesh.
Vast amounts of resources are spent on support to agriculture, with questionable results for agriculture, for national incomes, for nutrition and for the environment.
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Polygynous family structure and child undernutrition in Africa: Empirical evidence from Nigeria
A growing interest is emerging in the literature to explore how child nutrition is affected by sociocultural practices, such as polygyny.
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Do grassroots interventions relax behavioral constraints to the adoption of nutrition-sensitive food production systems?
In many developing countries, agricultural policies and programs are often designed in a way to promote productivity growth with modern inputs and technologies, and with limited reference to the nutrition gains that gain be made through production
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Effect of conflict and food price shocks on calorie intake and acute malnutrition in Nigeria: A micro-panel data analysis
Food insecurity and malnutrition are being worsened in countries that are exposed to armed conflict. Nigeria has witnessed a decade of protracted armed conflict and civil unrest.
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Food system transformation in Mozambique: An assessment of changing diet quality in the context of a rising middle class
Robust income growth combined with the highest urban population growth in the world is driving very rapid changes in the food system of Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Pesticide use in Sub-Saharan Africa: Estimates, projections, and implications in the context of food system transformation
The purpose of this paper is to characterize pesticide use in developing Sub-Saharan Africa (dSSA) in the context of urbanization, income growth, and food system change.
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The feasibility of picture-based crop insurance (PBI): Smartphone pictures for affordable crop insurance
This paper describes and tests the feasibility of Picture-Based Crop Insurance (PBI), a new way to deliver affordable and easy-to-understand insurance.
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Enhancing adaptive capacity through climate-smart insurance: Theory and evidence from India
Bundling agricultural insurance with climate-smart technologies and practices (CSA) can help improve risk management for smallholder farmers. This paper analyzes how bundling affects demand for insurance and CSA.
An ex-ante assessment of the effects of widespread adoption of CSA.
Malnutrition is one of the biggest public health challenges of the century with about 2 billion people affected by it globally.
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Measuring infant and young child complementary feeding practices
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The health co-benefits of a global greenhouse-gas tax on food
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Interpreting the shared socio-economic pathways under climate change for the ECOWAS region through a stakeholder and multi-model process
In this paper, we present four globally-consistent regional scenarios on Western Africa’s development that have been used to test and develop a range of national and regional policies.
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